JAMES NICHOLSON, Honorary Treasurer Examined with Ledger and Vouchers and certified correct SYDNEY H. JONES, Honorary Auditor LANTERNS, SLIDES and SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT To the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada: INTRODUCTION "Social Service must take its place by the side of Missions and the Religious Training of the Young." This statement, with its great implications, was adopted by the General Synod of 1918 in the concluding paragraph of the First Triennial Report of the Council for Social Service. It is a clear cut statement of the principle involved when the General Synod of 1915 by the enactment of Canon XIV called into being the Council for Social Service of the Church of England in Canada. That principle is nothing less than the recognition that the Church's active minitry for the sons of men should follow in its leading features the ministry of the Church's Lord, of whom we learn from a study of the Holy Gospels that He went about everywhere-(1) preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom; (2) teaching the people and (3) doing good, performing gracious deeds of love and mercy, healing the sick, and exorcizing the demons. In modern terms the Ministry of the Master included Missionary Work, Religious Education and Social Service. The M.S.C.C. was formed to develop the Missionary Work, the General Board of Religious |